Hey,
Has anyone had any success in creating a package from the XeTeX sources? It comes with a custobm uild-xetex and install-xetex rather than the standard configure; make; make install.

I use src2pkg and trackinstall to make packages but simply running trackinstall -i='sh install-xetex' doesn't do the trick. I ended up building a package using the -JAIL option but it doesn't work properly.

Any tips?

grissiom

09-02-2008 02:33 AM

Hmm, I haven't tried to package XeTeX but install the whole TexLive distribution which contain ready-to-run XeTeX and it's dependencies. It will install all the stuffs into /usr/local/texlive by default and is rather easy to remove. The only side effect is to download a 2.4GB DVD image. You could have a try.

deadbeat

09-02-2008 02:48 AM

Is texlive much bigeer in size than tetex?
I wonder if its gonna replace it in slackware at some point..

tramni1980

09-02-2008 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadbeat
(Post 3266964)

Is texlive much bigeer in size than tetex?
I wonder if its gonna replace it in slackware at some point..

I recently wrote to Patrick about that issue. He replied that it might be considered in the future. The great problem is that texlive is too big to be included untrimmed. If you are interested in texlive, I have made it into a package with a scriptq which I could send to you or post here. It works perfectly on my system. These days texlive 2008 will come out, so I will bother to package it as well.

brixtoncalling

09-02-2008 04:26 AM

I looked into texlive but it didn't look much more straightforward to install than XeTeX. If there's a script for compiling I'd like to take a look at it though. Thanks for all the answers B.

grissiom

09-02-2008 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tramni1980
(Post 3266984)

I recently wrote to Patrick about that issue. He replied that it might be considered in the future. The great problem is that texlive is too big to be included untrimmed. If you are interested in texlive, I have made it into a package with a scriptq which I could send to you or post here. It works perfectly on my system. These days texlive 2008 will come out, so I will bother to package it as well.

texlive 2008 have already come out as I'm using it now~;)The fully installed texlive2008 is 1.6GB big....

tramni1980

09-02-2008 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brixtoncalling
(Post 3267006)

I looked into texlive but it didn't look much more straightforward to install than XeTeX. If there's a script for compiling I'd like to take a look at it though. Thanks for all the answers B.

Ok, here follows my texlive.SlackBuild script. I used it to successfully build texlive-2007 package. Probably it will be as successful to build texlive-2008 as well.

# Install script:
mkdir -p $PKG/install
cd $PKG/install
cat > slack-desc << EOF
# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line
# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|'
# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must
# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also
# customary to leave one space after the ':'.

|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
texlive: texlive (the TeX Live distribution)
texlive:
texlive: TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a
texlive: comprehensive TeX system which includes all the major TeX-related
texlive: programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including
texlive: support for many languages around the world. This package uses the
texlive: "TeX Live full scheme".
texlive:
texlive: Learn more about TeX Live at:
texlive: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
texlive:
EOF